With my 11th pick in the draft, I am proud to select in the Title Belt category – the TNA X Division Championship
Even though Vince Russo is doing his best to ruin the X-Division, this belt is still one of my favorites.
2009-2001à The Phenomenal AJ Styles
1991-2000 à Raven
1980-1990 à Bam Bam Bigelow
Pre-80's à The Dynamite Kid
Tag Team à The Outsiders
Stable à The Karachi Vice
Women's à Gail Kim
Personality
Storyline à Brother vs Brother – Owen Hart vs Bret
Title Belt à TNA X-Division Championship
PPV à ECW’s Barely Legal (1997)
Match à Stampede Wrestling circa 1983 – Bad News Allen turns on Archie the Stomper
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Team Shooting Star Press selects with their 11th pick, John Morrison!!
John Randall Hennigan[8] (born October 3, 1979)[1][2] is an Americanprofessional wrestler, better known by his ring namesJohn Morrison and Johnny Nitro.[2] He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) performing on their ECWbrand, where he is one half of the current World Tag Team Champions with The Miz.[5] He appears on the Raw and SmackDown brands due to the ECW talent exchange with the two brands.
Before being promoted to the main WWE roster, Hennigan entered the third season of Tough Enough, a televised competition that would award the winner a WWE contract. He was one of the winners in the competition and assigned to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), to continue his wrestling training. While situated at OVW, he was placed in tag team competition, alongside Joey Mercury, in which they won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on one occasion. It was also during this time that he and Mercury, alongside their managerMelina, were known as the stable MNM.
After signing with WWE, the group were called up to the SmackDown! roster and on their debut in April 2005, Hennigan and Mercury went on to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. After their third and final reign ended in May 2006, Hennigan and Melina turned on Mercury. Hennigan and Melina were let go from the SmackDown! roster and debuted on the Raw brand. During his time with the brand, Hennigan competed in singles competition and won the Intercontinental Championshiptwice. In June 2007 he was drafted from Raw to the ECW brand, and during that time, he won the vacant ECW Championship. Since then, Hennigan has formed a partnership with The Miz, with the two capturing the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship on separate occasions.
2009-2001 Teddy Hart
1991-2000 - Edge
1980-1990 - The undertaker
Pre-80's - Gorgeous George
Tag Team - The Legion of Doom
Stable
Women's Rhonda Singh
Personality (announcer/valet/manager/bodyguard/special referee) Sunny
Storyline Hulk Hogan (NWO) vs Sting
Title Belt Commonwealth mid heavyweight Championship belt
PPV In your House 16
Match Bret Hart vs Steve Austin Wrestlemania 13
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With our 11th pick, Shotgun Saturday Night selects Tazz in the Personality category.
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His injuries mounting,[29] Tazz began performing part time commentary on Sunday Night Heat in October 2000. He joined the SmackDown! team in February 2001 after Jerry "the King" Lawler quit the company, as well as becoming one of the trainers for the joint WWF/MTV produced reality series Tough Enough.[22]
When World Wrestling Entertainment split into two brands, Tazz was put on SmackDown!, where he again became color commentator.[30] Not long after he retired from the ring, he became a full time broadcaster.[31] He co-hosted SmackDown! for World Wrestling Entertainment until a third brand, ECW, was introduced in 2006, at which point he became the color commentator for that show.[1] He is also co-host, with Joey Styles, of History of Extreme Championship Wrestling on WWE 24/7 Classics, a show that re-airs archived episodes of the original ECW's weekly television programs. Before and during episodes he and Styles provide insight into the storylines, inner workings, and general ambiance of ECW at the time—as they remember it.
In February 2006, Tazz and his SmackDown! broadcasting partner, Michael Cole, hosted a week long trial run of a show on Howard 101 on Sirius Satellite Radio, but the show was not picked up. He also hosted a talk show on 92.3 Free FM at sporadic intervals between late summer 2006 and early 2007, but it was not picked up and the station changed formats, replacing all post morning programming with music.
During the recording of the April 29, 2008 episode of ECW, Tazz's broadcast partner Mike Adamle abruptly walked off set prior to the main event. Moments later, after reading the promo for the upcoming pay-per-view, Tazz walked out as well, leaving the main event with no commentators.[32]
In August 2008, Tazz filled in for Mick Foley as a color commentator on the SmackDown brand, while Raw wrestler Matt Striker filled in for Tazz on the ECW brand. Since Foley left the company, Tazz is now the permanent color commentator for the SmackDown brand.
Invasion was the first pay-per-view to feature the ongoing Invasion storyline, which featured wrestlers from the WWF taking on a combined force of wrestlers from World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), later known as The Alliance. The event featured WWF wrestlers facing WCW and ECW wrestlers. The main event, dubbed the "Inaugural Brawl," was a five-on-five tag team match between Team WWF and Team WCW/ECW
That Invasion storyline was handled so, so poorly. What sense at all does it make to have the WWE playing the bad guys when ECWCW is supposedly "invading"? The flip-flopping of Ausin and Angle was also a really big disappointment, on top of almost none of WCW's main guys coming over in the buy-out.
That's why I took the PPV. I thought the PPV fufilled the fantasy of WWE vs. WCW very well. Sure, no Sting, Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, Goldberg, etc right away... but I thought it was a well put on PPV.
I do agree that the WWE did drop the ball on the storyline though. Vince McMahon doesn't like former WCW/TNA stars. Booker got the belt, so did Goldberg. Anyone else who made their name in the other companies is not getting a fair shake with the WWE (see - Christian in ECW right now)
Well with the movement of Mick Foley to the 2000 - 2009 this leaves a big hole, and after much deliberation we have found someone that can take his spot we believe.
So without further ado Team Stylin and Profilin is VERY proud to select in the category of 1991-2000 the late Eddie Guerrero
What can be said about Eddie, he came from a wrestling family and was destined to be one as well. He started in Mexico where he learned his Lucha Libre style of wrestling. After that he wrestled in Japan where he became a star. Word got out on him and ECW came calling where he became a star in North America. After a couple years in the "dub" Eddie moved onto WCW and eventually onto WWE.
In WWE he had one of his biggest wrestling moments where he won the Heavyweight Championship.
When Chris Benoit defected to Raw after winning the Royal Rumble, using his title shot to go for Triple H's World Heavyweight Championship, Eddie won a 15-man Royal Rumble style match on the January 29, 2004 edition of SmackDown! to earn a shot at the WWE Championship.
After becoming the number one contender, Guerrero elevated himself to main event status and began feuding with the WWE Champion Brock Lesnar. At No Way Out, Guerrero defeated Lesnar in the main event to win the WWE Championship. The victory made him only the second-ever Latino WWE Champion in history, and the first Mexican American to win the main world title in an American promotion. His next feud was with Kurt Angle, whom he defeated at WrestleMania XX to retain his title in his first big defense. At the end of this event, Guerrero celebrated in the ring with longtime friend Chris Benoit, who had just won the World Heavyweight Championship.
I dunno what's up with me and this draft, it seems like I check it and I'm no where near picking to being AK'ed. Might be that I don't have a plan and seem to be picking by the seat of my pants.
Anyway
in the Pre-1980's category, I'm pleased to select a wrestler that has sentimental meaning for me beyond his wrestling attributes. Despite tallying up the following awards:
AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time)
NWA Florida Television Championship (1 time)
Canadian International Tag Team Championship (5 times)
NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (San Francisco version) (5 times)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (9 times)
NWA North American Heavyweight Championship(Amarillo version) (1 time)
NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles/Japan version) (1 time)
NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (2 times)
WWF Hardcore Championship (1 time)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time) (first)
WWF North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WWF Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Stanley Weston Award (2004)
PWI Ranked him #110 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.
This is a wrestler that proves that it's not what you do that's important, but it's all in the name
"Pretty Boy" Pat Patterson
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With my 11th round pick I am proud to select in the "Storyline" category...
"Shane Douglas throws down NWA title"
In 1994, Jim Crockett's non-compete agreement with Ted Turner, who purchased World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from Crockett in 1988, was up and he decided to start promoting with the NWA again. Crockett went to Tod Gordon and asked him to hold a tournament for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at the ECW Arena on August 27, 1994. NWA President Dennis Coralluzzo thought that Crockett and Gordon were going to try to monopolize the title[4] (much like Crockett did in the 1980s) and told them they didn't have the NWA board's approval so he took control over the tournament. Gordon was upset at Coralluzzo for his power plays so Gordon and Shane Douglas, who was booked to win the title against 2 Cold Scorpio, planned to have Douglas throw the title down after he won it and break ECW from the NWA. [5][6] So after the match, Douglas threw down the NWA belt stating that he did not want to be champion of a "dead promotion." He then raised the Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Title and declared it to be a World Heavyweight Championship—calling it the only real World Title.
In accord with this speech, Paul Heyman later stated that "the National Wrestling Alliance was old-school when old-school wasn't hip anymore. We wanted to set our mark, we wanted to breakaway from the pack, we wanted to let the world know that we weren't just some independent promotion."
After ECW withdrew from the NWA and officially changed its name from "Eastern Championship Wrestling" to "Extreme Championship Wrestling", it became an underground sensation. The unorthodox style of moves, controversial story lines, and intense blood thirst of ECW made it intensely popular among many wrestling fans in the 18- to 35-year-old male demographic. Its intense fan base, albeit a small constituency, reached near-cultism in the late 1990s and inspired the "hardcore style" in other wrestling promotions, namely WWF and WCW.
2001-2009 - CM Punk
1991-2000 - William Regal
1980-1990 - Curt Hennig
Pre-80's - Abdullah the Butcher
Tag Team - Miz & Morrison
Stable - Raven's Flock
Women's - Maryse Ouellet
Personality - Eric Bischoff
Storyline - Shane Douglas throws down NWA title
Title Belt - Intercontinental Championship
PPV
Match - HBK vs Jeff Hardy, RAW 2/11/08
In the 1991-2000 category team Pipers Pit Stains is happy to welcome a Big Man:
Rodney Anoa'i better known as Yokozuna
In 1992, Anoa'i was contacted by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was offered a new gimmick: Yokozuna. Managed by Harry Fujiwara (Mr. Fuji), Yokozuna debuted in October 1992, and was announced as a sumo wrestler competing under the Japanese flag. He made his pay-per-view debut at Survivor Series 1992, squashing the much smaller Virgil.
Soon, Yokozuna's career took off, and he headed into 1993's Royal Rumble billed as a potential favorite. He eliminated Randy Savage to win the Rumble, cementing his movement towards main event status. Soon after, Yokozuna further solidified his status as a monstrous villain by crushing the American hero Hacksaw Jim Duggan with four Banzai Drops, the fourth being with the American flag draped over Duggan.
At WrestleMania IX, Yokozuna faced off against Bret Hart for the WWF Championship. Hart had the match won with Yokozuna about to submit to the Sharpshooter, when Mr. Fuji threw salt into the champion's face. Blinded, Hart was then pinned by Yokozuna, who won the WWF Championship, causing a major upset, and officially making Yokozuna the seventeenth WWF Champion. As he and Mr. Fuji celebrated, Hulk Hogan came out from the back to protest against the decision. Mr. Fuji then arrogantly challenged the Hulkster (offering to put the title on the line in the process) and Hogan accepted after Hart gave it his blessing. Fuji tried to blind Hogan with salt, but the move backfired, leading to Yokozuna being pinned in less than a minute. This gave Yokozuna the 2nd-shortest title reign in WWE history.
RIP - On October 23, 2000, Anoa'i died of fluid in his lungs while in his room at the Moat House Hotel, Liverpool. He was 34 years old. It was reported that his death was caused by heart failure. Anoa'i died at the weight of 450 pounds.
Over 12 hours since Drunk's pick, and my open categories don't conflict with Droopy's open categories, so it doesn't really matter anyway...
For the final selection of Round 11, Team Malfunction Junction chooses, in the Stable Category: The Nation of Domination.
In 1996, the WWF was losing steam and struggling in the Monday Night Wars as WCW Nitro was becoming a juggernaut with the debut of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash and the formation of the nWo.
Vince had lost many of his former top-level performers to WCW, unable to compete with Eric Bischoff and Ted Turner's chequebook. In the summer of 1996, WWF signed a former WCW champion - the first black world champion in any of the major wrestling promotions - Ron Simmons.
What did Vince do with his newly-acquired former champion? He put him in a goofy gladiator costume and changed his name to Faarooq Asad. Oddly, that character didn't get over with the fans.
In late 96, Faarooq dropped his last name, acquired a new manager in Clarence Mason and started up a new group that called itself The Nation of Domination. Early members of the group included Crush and Savio Vega, along with Mason, Faarooq, and D-Lo Brown.
In June 1997, Faarooq kicked Vega and Crush out of the NoD (and fired Mason), and promised to reform a "bigger and blacker" Nation. Faarooq kept his promise, adding Kama Mustafa and his former enemy, Ahmed Johnson. The injury-prone Johnson didn't last long as a member of the Nation, and was soon replaced by some third generation kid who couldn't get over with the crowds named Rocky Maivia.
While in the Nation, Maivia was able to develop the character that fans would soon fall in love with...the People's Champion...The Rock.
The Rock's increasing popularity and ring presence led to a rift within the NoD as The Rock began to act as the leader of the faction, angering Faarooq in the process.
Eventually, The Rock, who was the Intercontinental Champion, became the permanent leader of the Nation (which dropped the "of Domination" from its name as it moved away from its "Black Power" background) and Faarooq left the group ("DAMN!").
Under the Rock's leadership, The Nation became more "fun" and "cool" and Mustafa went from being an angry militant to "The Godfather", a pimp who invited everyone to take a trip aboard the "Hooooooooooo Train!"
After Faarooq's departure, Mark Henry was added to the Nation's roster, and in an odd twist, Owen Hart joined the group in April 1998.
The Nation's most memorable feud was with D-X during the summer of 1998, and included a very un-PC parody of the Nation by D-X wearing blackface make up.
As The Rock's popularity continued to rise, the decision was made for him to become a face, which didn't really fit with The Nation's heelish nature. Eventually, Hart, The Rock and Godfather went solo, and although they remained a tag team, Henry and Brown left The Nation behind in late November 1998, a little over 2 years after it was founded.
D-Lo Brown was the only member of The Nation of Domination through its entire lifespan.
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
To start the final round of the draft, Team Malfunction Junction chooses to defer the choice until later and accepts an auto-AK.
I only have my Tag Team remaining, and only one other team doesn't have its Tag Team yet. I'm trying to choose between two different teams and haven't yet made up my mind, so either StoneCole will pick one of the teams I'm waffling between, which will make my choice easier, or I'll have to come back later and make up my mind.
So, for now: StoneCole still needs an 11th pick; Droopy needs the final 2; and Drunk is on the clock, looking for a PPV.
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